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Show General Crook's Capture, Nuw York Sun. General Crook's death recalls one of the most picturesque incidents of the civil war, viz, the capture of Crook and Kelly, both then general otlieers of volunteer vol-unteer forces, by a handf ul of confederates confeder-ates as the two officers slept in a hotel iii the city of Cumberland, Md. There were fully 10,0110 union troops in and around Cumberland at the time, but a few of McNeill's partisan ranger, a guerilla corps party recruited in Cumberland, Cum-berland, crossed tho Potomac from Virginia, and at midnight made fho capture. The confederates, familiar with the place from childhood, clattered clat-tered unchallenged through the sleepy city, easily ruptured the sentry pacing tho gas-lit street in front of tho hotel, and actually penetrated to the bedrooms bed-rooms of the two generals. When the dazed otlieers awoke it was to find themselves in the hand of the enemy. They were mounted on horseback and quietly taken out of the city before the alarm spread. General Crook afterward after-ward married the sS.4cr of one of his captors. |